{"id":38901,"date":"2013-12-17T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38901"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:29:16","slug":"army-war-college-may-remove-confederate-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38901","title":{"rendered":"Army War College may remove Confederate images"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times<\/a> writes that someone had a bright idea to remove images of Confederate Generals like Lee and Jackson from the Army War College,and the idea may spread to other military institutions;<\/p>\n

\u201cI do know at least one person has questioned why we would honor individuals who were enemies of the United States Army,\u201d Ms. Kerr said. \u201cThere will be a dialogue when we develop the idea of what do we want the hallway to represent.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said one faculty member took down the portraits of Gen. Lee and Gen. Jackson, and put them on the floor as part of the inventory process. That gave rise to rumors that the paintings had been removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis person was struck by the fact we have quite a few Confederate images,\u201d she said, adding that the pictures were put back on a 3rd floor hallway.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Gen. Lee] was certainly not good for the nation. This is the guy we faced on the battlefield whose entire purpose in life was to destroy the nation as it was then conceived\u2026This is all part of an informed discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is the kind of historical cleansing that could spark a debate Army-wide. Gen. Lee\u2019s portrait adorns the walls of other military installations and government buildings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, apart from the discussion we could have about the politics that led to the Civil War, we could talk about the things they should be talking about at a place called “The War College” namely “war”. Lee and Jackson knew a little bit about war and rewrote the book on maneuver and the use of artillery, the lessons they taught us are still taught today. Taking down their portraits and tearing down their statues, we might as well erase them from the books, too.<\/p>\n

I guess they could replace the pictures and statues of Jackson and Lee with some Union generals like George MacClellan who only provides lessons in regards to what not to do when it comes to modern warfare. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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